- Drama
- 174 min
- NR
Rotten Tomatoes95%Metacritic80IMDb7.5
Nagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his Yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wings of a famous Kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. For decades, the two young men grow and evolve together – and one will become the greatest Japanese master of the art of Kabuki.
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Earnest, grave, meticulous and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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Cast
- Ryo YoshizawaKikuo Tachibana
- Ryusei YokohamaShunsuke Ogaki
- Mitsuki TakahataHarue Fukuda
- Shinobu TerajimaSachiko Ogaki
- Soya KurokawaKikuo (young)
- Keitatsu KoshiyamaShunsuke (young)
- Min TanakaMangiku Onogawa
- Ken WatanabeHanjiro Hanai
- Nana MoriAkiko
- Takahiro MiuraTakeno
Crew
- Sang-il LeeDirector
- Satoko OkuderaScreenplay
- Shuichi YoshidaNovel
- Sofian El FaniDirector of Photography
- Marihiko HaraOriginal Music Composer
- Tsuyoshi ImaiEditor
- Shinzo MatsuhashiProducer
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